scholarly journals Developing a regional specialist registrar day

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 310-312
Author(s):  
David J. Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Specialist Training ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Specialist Registrar ◽  
Short Space ◽  
Generic Groups ◽  
Service Specialist

Higher specialist training in psychiatry requires the development of a broad range of knowledge and skills in a short space of time. However, a brief national survey of programme directors confirms reports from peers that structured, targeted teaching tends not to continue beyond completion of College Membership examinations. Exceptions to this rule are child and adolescent psychiatry and to a lesser extent psychotherapy, which reflects requirements laid out in the Higher Specialist Training Handbook (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1998). Specialist registrars must therefore, using limited study time and funding, attempt to acquire knowledge from local and national courses. These, however, are usually aimed at more generic groups: for example, all health service specialist registrars or at consultants for fulfilment of continuing professional development.

scholarly journals Local initiatives in clinical effectiveness

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 373-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kehoe
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Secondary Care ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Clinical Effectiveness ◽  
Clinical Governance ◽  
Local Initiatives

With the arrival of clinical governance, psychiatrists working for the National Health Service (NHS) can no longer work in isolation, and commitment to both clinical effectiveness and continuing professional development (CPD) is expected and likely to become mandatory. Clinical governance gives clinical effectiveness a high priority within NHS organisations, both at primary and secondary care levels, together with clearer lines of accountability.

scholarly journals The impact of CPD workshops on library professional practice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Campbell-Meier ◽  
Anne Goulding
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
The Impact

This paper focuses on the impact that the flow and exchange ideas during Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Workshops has on the professional practice of librarians. Participants in four CPD workshops were invited to participate in surveys at three and six month intervals after attending CPD workshops. Most participants implemented the ideas gained from the workshop in ways that benefited personal practice, library services, and the organisation, transferring the knowledge and skills from the workshops into their professional practice.

scholarly journals Introducing continuing professional development

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sims
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Postgraduate Training ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Standards Of Practice ◽  
High Standards

Most professions have recently realised that basic undergraduate and postgraduate training is not enough to maintain high standards of practice throughout a long career. Continuing professional development (CPD) has become a feature therefore of the working life of these professions, and medicine, which was in the forefront for undergraduate and postgraduate education, has somewhat lagged behind in this. The failure of consultants to keep up to date in their professional knowledge and attitudes is clearly detrimental to patients, to the doctors themselves, and to the Health Service.

Making Supervision and Ongoing Development Review a Productive Experience: An Integrated Approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 246-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Smith ◽  
Mary Morley
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Financial Constraint ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
Integrated Approaches

In a climate of financial constraint the National Health Service (NHS) faces the challenge of simultaneously improving productivity and enhancing quality. The pledges to staff within the NHS Constitution and the launch of a Simplified Knowledge and Skills Framework recognise that an appropriately trained workforce, that feels engaged with and valued by its employers, is pivotal to success. This opinion piece proposes that these policy developments have provided opportunities to develop integrated approaches to appraisal, continuing professional development and supervision that may balance the competing demands faced by therapists working in busy health and social care environments.

scholarly journals Improving patient care through CPD: revised guidance from the Royal College of Psychiatrists

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-276
Author(s):  
Guy Brookes
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Effective Practice ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Continued Learning ◽  
Improving Patient Care

SummaryContinued learning is essential to doctors' safe and effective practice throughout their careers. To improve the care they provide, they need not only to acquire new knowledge and skills but also to consider how their current practice compares and what they need to change. Such reflection is not usually automatic; time, and often help from peers, is needed to make it effective; formalised, this is continuing professional development (CPD). Revised guidance from the Royal College of Psychiatrists emphasises the importance of linking learning to improved practice through reflection and promotes the CPD peer group's role in supporting psychiatrists to do this.

scholarly journals Consultant psychiatrists' opinions and experience of CPD

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 348-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Williams ◽  
Andrew Sims ◽  
Tom Sensky
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Specialist Training ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact

A postal survey was carried out on a random sample of Fellows and Members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom or Eire in order to investigate current Continuing Professional Development (CPD) practice and the impact of resources and funding for CPD. One hundred and thirteen of 264 anonymised questionnaires were returned (43%). Most respondents considered CPD should be mandatory for consultants, for educational supervisors, for eligibility for the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training and for election to the Fellowship of the College.

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